Seven CEE Films Receive Eurimages Support
STRASBOURG: Coproductions from Croatia, Hungary, Latvia, Romania and Poland are among 17 films selected for Eurimages funding during the December 2012 meeting.
Bohrer Continues as EUFCN President
Arie Bohrer, Film Commissioner of Location Austria (www.locationaustria.at), has been re-elected President of the European Film Commissions Network (www.eufcn.org), a position he has held since the organization’s first general assembly…
FNE wishes you a Happy and Successful New Year! See you again on 7 January 2013.
Film New Europe would like to thank all its sponsors, supporters and readers and to wish them a happy and prosperous New Year. Keep on Filming in 2013 !
FNE TV Evgeniy Gindilis: Executive Director Red Square Screenings
FNE TV asked Gindilis how central and eastern European producers can coproduce with Russia and how Red Square Screenings (www.rac-cb.com) is opening doors for European producers in Russia. See the…
Digitalisation drives increase in TV subscribers in Romania
BUCHAREST: The number of subscribers for programmes retransmission rose in Romania in the first half of 2012 by 2.9% compared to the end of 2011, leading to a small increase…
FNE TV at Europa Cinemas Conference 2012: Ian Christie, President Europa Cinemas
FNE TV asked Christie about the biggest challenges facing European arthouse cinemas today. (Click Here)
New Russian studio Glavkino looks to busy 2013
MOSCOW: Glavkino Studios (www.galvkino.ru), Russia’s newest state-of-the art digital film and studio complex is already looking at a busy start to 2013 after finishing up its first year of operation…
Films from Central and Eastern Europe to Compete at Sundance
WARSAW: Feature from Poland and a Serbian, Croatian, Slovenian coproduction will screen at Sundance's World Cinema Dramatic section. A documentary from Georgia will also compete.
FNE - IDF DocBloc: IDFA 2012 Celebrates 25 Years with Style
A look back at the 25th edition of IDFA and the CEE films presented this year at Europe's most significant documentary festival. Click HERE to read the full story on…
Stefan Kitanov receives Europa Cinemas Entrepreneur of the Year 2012 Award
PARIS: Sofia Film Festival helmer and Bulgarian producer, distributor and exhibitor Stefan Kitanov has been awarded this year’s Europa Cinemas Entrepreneur of the Year Award. Kitanov runs the Dom na…
FNE at Europa Cinemas: Cinema of the Month print version
FNE at Europa Cinemas: FNE offers you its Cinema of the Month print version, published in honour of the Europa Cinemas conference which kicks of in Paris today, 23 November…
FNE at Connecting Cottbus: Lenin?!
COTTBUS: A Russian outpost in northern Kyrgyzstan is the setting for a U.K. produced black comedy about three punks who, unwittingly steal a statue of a Russian icon, Lenin?!
FNE at Connecting Cottbus: A Good Wife
COTTBUS: Serbian star Mirjana Karanovic (When Father Was Away on Business, Grbavica) will make her writing and directing debut with a post-Yugoslav war film A Good Wife.
FNE AVP Live ! Elena Romanova head of the International Department of the Russian Cinema Fund
FNE asked Romanova how EU producers can coproduce successfully with Russia, during the Red Square Screenings in Moscow. See the full interview on FNE TV.
FNE at Connecting Cottbus: Freedom or Death
COTTBUS: Following the success of Punk’s Not Dead which won the East of the West award at the 2011 Karlovy Vary IFF (www.kviff.com), Macedonian director Vladimir Blazevski and Punk Film…
FNE at Connecting Cottbus 2012: The Mute
COTTBUS: Polish director Bartek Konopka, whose imaginative and clever 2009 documentary Rabbit a la Berlin received an Oscar nomination, presented his new project The Mute at the 2012 edition of…
FNE at Connecting Cottbus 2012: Family Film
COTTBUS: Czech producer Jiri Konecny of endorfilm (www.endorfilm.cz) teams up with FAMU (www.famu.cz) trained Slovenian director Olmo Omerzu for his second film shot in the Czech Republic, Family Film.
FNE at Connecting Cottbus 2012: Three Windows and a Hanging
COTTBUS: Kosovo made its first appearance at the Connecting Cottbus (www.connecting-cottbus.de) pitching forum with Three Windows and a Hanging, a dramatic post-war story from leading Kosovo director Isa Qosja.
Cinema City Posts Q3 Recovery
PRAGUE: Cinema City (www.cinemacity.nl), the largest multiplex operator in CEE, recovered most of its earlier 2012 losses in the third quarter, with revenues up 8 percent, to 74.9 m EUR,…
HBO Europe Appoints Harrison as COO
BUDAPEST: HBO Europe (www.hbo-europe.com) announced the appointment of Will Harrison to the new position of Chief Operating Officer.
